2021 AGM and Field Weekend in Queenstown!

Saturday 16th October 2021 Meet 8.45am at the bottom of Coronet Peak road. Free parking here. Bus leaves 9am – seats must be pre-booked. You can self drive your own 4WD with good clearance – When Terry went in there back in August the road was very muddy and rutted. In the Skippers we will…

Welcome to our May 2021 Newsletter.

Things are busy as ever in the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust office. There was quite a bit of ‘tidying up’ post Cavalcade to do. A massive THANK YOU from Twizel to all you Cavalcaders who volunteered to donate your dinner, hoedown and breakfast tickets. Thanks to all your generosity the Twizel Cavalcade Committee was still…

Pre Christmas Newsletter

OGHT Newsletter November 2019 (Click here to view or print a PDF) Welcome to our pre-Christmas newsletter! December is just around the corner and many of you will have had a few pre-Christmas bashes already!  Waipori Expedition – Monday 9 December 2019: The OGHT is having a special and quite possibly a one-off opportunity on…

2018 AGM and Field Trip

Click here to register on line for the Field Trip. Friday 5th October: Meet between 10am – 10.30am at Kawarau Woolshed (signposted off Bannockburn Road, 2mins out of Bannockburn) BYO morning tea to have at the Category 1 Heritage NZ listed woolshed. Richard Anderson, will tell us the history of the station and a couple…

2018 AGM and Field Trip around Bannockburn.

Friday 5th October:     Click here to register for the Field Trip. Meet between 10am – 10.30am at Kawarau Woolshed (signposted off Bannockburn Road, 2mins out of Bannockburn) BYO morning tea to have at the Category 1 Heritage NZ listed woolshed. Richard Anderson, will tell us the history of the station and a couple of…

The Victorian Picnic at Stewart Town

Victorian Picnic: Saturday 6th October at Stewart Town Bannockburn 10am – 2pm Concept Invite the public to help us to celebrate the work the DoC and OGHT have done at the Stewart Town/Menzies Dam Site Event The public will park at the end of Hall Road, We will use a mini van to ferry people to…

Catlins Field Trip 3rd-5th April 2017

A fantastic time was had by all who ventured over to Owaka and the Catlins for our April Field Trip. The hospitality of the locals, the fine food, the great weather (!! we had the best weather in the country while everyone else got rained on), the scenery and of course the interesting heritage exposed…